Three Endoxocrinus maclearanus flank a purple sea fan with a snake star at 2000 ft depth in the Bahamas. Image courtesy Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER If you didn’t get a chance to follow ...

The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures. Now, armed with a remote controlled vehicle, researchers in the South China Sea have discovered another. During surveys from the ...

In the prehistoric animal kingdom, before dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before any animals and plants occupied dry land, starfish-like creatures known as crinoids thrived in some of the ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.

A fossil kept for years in a small museum collection in Montreal has revealed something almost never seen in animals this old. Paleontologists identified preserved feeding tissue in a crinoid that ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called crinoids, resembling stalked sea flowers, were among the first creatures to ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers could choose a 500-million-year-old species known as a crinoid as the state’s officially recognized fossil. Geologists have called Burlington the “crinoid ...